Article
Direct and indirect induction of a compensatory phenotype that alleviates the costs of an inducible defense.
PloS one - 31 Oct 2007
Iwami Tadashi, Kishida Osamu, Nishimura Kinya
Abstract excerpt
Organisms often exhibit phenotypic plasticity in multiple traits in response to impending environmental change. Multiple traits phenotypic plasticity is complex syndrome brought on by causal relations in ecological and physiological context. Larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus exhibit inducible phenotypic plasticity of two traits, when at risk of predation by dragonfly larvae. One induced phenotype is an...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Cell Communication
- Environment
- Food Chain
- Larva
- Models, Biological
- Oxygen
- Phenotype
- Predatory Behavior
- Risk